hardware space size error

[Richard E Miles]

> > Cao,
> > 
> > Bao Cao wrote:
> > > Hi, Thanks for your reply.
> > > Regarding convert, what I did is: I used
> > > PartitionMagic to delete the logical drive of hdb6
> > > under Windows, then, I partitioned it with ext3
> > form,
> > > after that, restarted and logon FC2. The whole hdb
> > > consists of 3 drives, two of them are NTFS,
> > totally
> > > about 100GB, then last one is ext3. Since now most
> > of
> > > my data should be done under Linux, I converted it
> > to
> > > ext3 avoiding of writing permission problem with
> > NTFS.
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty newbie of FC2. I tried googling first,
> > but
> > > it still not clear how I can deal with it. Any
> > > suggestion please? Thanks.
> > 
> > What is the output of
> > 
> >     df -hl
> I just naively followed the settings for hda6 and
> changed /etc/fstab by using:
> /dev/hdb6               /mnt/homewd             ext3
> defaults   0 0
> 
> df -hl
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3              13G  4.2G  7.8G  35% /
> /dev/hda2              97M  7.6M   85M   9% /boot
> none                  252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda6             5.0G  3.7G  1.1G  78% /home
> /dev/hdb1              48G   35G   14G  73% /mnt/win_g
> /dev/hdb5              48G  102M   48G   1% /mnt/win_h
> /dev/hdb6              89G   13G   72G  16%
> /mnt/homewd
> /dev/hda1              19G  4.9G   14G  27%
> /mnt/windows
> 
> It seems hdb6 is back, but I am not sure any possible
> future risk. I have to logon as root to do "chmod 777
> /mnt/homewd" to get write permission, how to change
> fstab so that I get all the permission automatically?
> 
> > and (as root)
> >     fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> 
> bash: fdisk: command not found
> 
> Does that mean I didn't install fdisk? 
> 
> > ?
> > > 
> > > Best,
> > >  Cao
> > > 
> > >  
> > 
> > Alex
> > 
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try /sbin/fdisk

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Richard E Miles
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